Star Wars Outlaws Players Being Told by Ubisoft to Delete Save & Start With Day One Patch Installed

Ubisoft has emailed Star Wars Outlaws players with early access to delete their save and restart the game wit the day one patch installed.

[GAMERJET]

Release and fix later? Par for the ubisoft course.

[LordoftheCritics]

What was the early access for?

People paid 130 bucks for that.

[thorstein]

Just to clear up confusion. All early access adopters can get/ already have the day 1 patch.

So, no they won't have to wait until launch day and they can play now, just make sure
It's updated to version 1.000.002.

[notatallsurprisinggg]

@thorstein

I find it hard to believe that a 3rd rate news site would click bait people into a misleading statement like that.

[thorstein]

@notatalll

"On August 27, our teams identified an issue where some PS5 players were playing on a previous version of the game. We quickly deployed an update and informed affected players to ensure their game was updated to the latest version (1.000.002) and advised that they begin a new save to avoid additional issues and progression blockers. We've followed up with affected PS5 players today to inform them we have provided them an in-game Trailblazer trinket as well as 100 Ubisoft Connect Units (to redeem for in-game rewards, for example) to make their return to the Outer Rim a little more special." -Ubisoft via GameRadar

[victorMaje]

Pay now for early access, but properly access later. Thank you for your business. /s

[Hotpot]

So much for early access lol

[raWfodog]

Biggest scam in the gaming industry.

[CobraKai]

Right! Totally pointless

[D4Damager]

Read the article, EA is fine....

[TheNamelessOne]

Make a big deal pushing the more expensive versions and the early access to the super fans, then screw them over after the fact. Nice one there, Ubi.

[RhinoGamer88]

Like I advised... buy at Black Friday... NEVER buy on launch day with these games.

[Inverno]

Won't really change the fact that what's on the disc is still a broken game. Every current physical copy of this game is and will be forever broken, a month from now, 2, 6, doesn't matter. Unless they rerelease a physical version with all the fixes applied people get screwed over no matter how many patches they release to download. That's the issue people seem to not understand, you really want to get your point across? Don't wait to buy during black Friday, nahh don't buy it all.

[MrNinosan]

That goes for every single game thou. Nothing exclusive to Ubi or Outlaws.

Almost every game goes gold a month ahead of release, and during that month there is in almost every case at least a day 1 patch.

[JEECE]

Yep this is why the whole "I'm buying physical for preservation purposes" doesn't have the same weight with games as it does with movies/music/books. Any of those types of media, you buy physical to preserve the real, authentic version (avoiding things like George Lucas edits or removal of licensed music with movies/shows, or for music avoiding artists rerecording new versions of older songs and just removing the real recordings from the Internet). Up through PS2/Xbox/GameCube (and really Wii I guess for Nintendo) that argument still applied to games, but basically beginning with PS3 and 360 if all you have is the disc, the version of the game you have is not going to be the experience you remember. At best it will be jankier and buggier. At worst it will be broken or you won't even have the full game.

Physical game diehards never acknowledge this though, or if they do they just say "well some games are complete on the disc." But at this point it's not many.

[jznrpg]

Ubisoft games drastically dropped a in price a couple months later for many years now. I think the game looks decent though. Wait a yearish later and it’s in the bargain bin. Buy 2 get 1 deal or Black Friday is probably when I’ll buy it but I may end up waiting for the bargain bin.

[isarai]

Bruh 😒

[Inverno]

You paid for early access and get a broken game. You buy a product and require to connect to the Internet because you get a broken product printed on a disc. Reminder that you gotta pay 110 or 130 to play a broken game earlier than the suckers who are still willing to pay 70 dollars.

[Umb]

Don't you know the new QA norm for big gaming comanies now? Put more money into marketing it, hire people based on DEI, get suckers to pay more money for the uber edition to be the actual QA tester (early access), pay or butter up some game journos for protection and of course attack anyone who disagree or dislike the game!

[Chocoburger]

Trash company, and yet people are actually defending them.

"Its not out for another 3 days."

Oh, everything will be fixed in just 3 days, meanwhile that disc copy is friggin' useless forever.

Releasing games in beta state is not okay. Charging extra to let people play games released in beta state is even worse.

Stop defending Ubishit.

[MrNinosan]

The game is fully enjoyable without the patch, just a trophy that can't be achieved.

[Profchaos]

Oof seriously it shouldn't have been. Given out they had to have known this

[kingeliran]

Do PC players need to start a new save? They said they send email only to ps5 players

[thorstein]

Yeah and we already got the patch yesterday.

[MasterGnet]

only PS5-Players are affected. PC und Xbox Player aren't.

[Lunario]

Day one patch already avaiable with ps5 early acess my copy already downloaded with it

[Sircolby45]

I remember a time when Ubisoft made good games. Those days are long behind us. Now they just turn out cookie cutter no effort reskins of the same terrible game over and over again.

[CrimsonWing69]

When decisions like this happen, is there really nobody In The room that says, “This ain’t gonna go over well,” because I don't know who thought charging extra for early access and then suggesting you delete a save for a Day 1 Patch is going to go over well with people

[OneLove]

Ubi really making sure i keep not buying their games lmao

[vTuro24]

Pay for the Ubisoft experience, recieve the Ubisoft experience.

[Crows90]

People please respond with a big finger to that email.

[anast]

And it only costs $130.

[BillyCrystals]

Ubisoft needs to go bye bye

[Soy]

Least Ubisoft could do is give them all vouchers for a free Ubisoft game.

[Demetrius]

Lmao as with other games too, there were several games I started then an update went out and I had to restart the game to experience a smoother gameplay etc why are mfs so surprised by the usual 🤦🏾 times I was playing games in the middle of a mission, a simple restart and boom back enjoying myself

[OneLove]

? Did you read the part where you should delete your save? Thats not normal.